If There Was Ever An Image That Puts Our Petty Squabbles Into Perspective.........

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51491471
......this is it.

[Old_Geezer]

But that's still where the almost intelligent life is.

[TheDevil]

That's just a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam..

[Mamyalynne]

Superb image that really puts things into perspective.

[hereIam]

In the great scheme of things, are we really all that important ??

[Ellipsis]

Here's a song to go with it ...

[TheDevil]

"are we really all that important ??"

Yes.

[Ellipsis]

> the grand scale of things

[Zacs-Master]

Always good to keep our insignificance in mind. Especially in a Science thread.

[jim360]

Well you lot may be insignificant anyway :0

[Khandro]

Whenever I look at an image like that it makes me think how insignificant jim is. Ony joking jim :0)

[jim360]

I'm telling on you!! *sucks thumb*

[Lie-in King]

Great work by Nice And Simple Astronomy, keeping it real.

[hereIam]

Lol at 14:45 ..

[Rosie29]

Thanks for that TTT - awesome picture.

[Hopkirk]

You are here

[Ken4155]

Ta for the Python clip, Ellipsis. Many a true word spoken (or sung) in jest:-)

[sevenOP]

They certainly did a good job of cleaning-up the original

Pale blue dot (Earth from 4 billion miles away). Image: Voyager 1/NASA, 6 June 1990

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6406794819_55660c30b2_b.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/nov/27/1

Incredible!!!

[Peter Pedant]

// Whenever I look at an image like that it makes me think how insignificant jim is. Ony joking jim :0)//
smart arrissed one liner
oo heres another one
But that's still where the almost intelligent life is

then the aliens have never locked into AB then have they - - ter daaah !

transmitting at one trillionth of a watt
but thanks to ERC - error correcting codes - the messages are still intelligble

( good OU tv on that)

[drmorgans]

And we live a few decades, maybe 100 years. Human "civilisation" has lasted no more than 10-20,000 years. Our planet is 3.5 billion years old and the known universe 14 billion.

[Prudie]

Thanks I've never seen that before, the picture with Saturn in the foreground is just awesome.